land clearing with husqvarna 365sp & 440xtorq

[logger 12345]

hello my friends,thanks for the nice wishes for christmas,it's been a while since i have been online,to be very honest i hadn't time,things were mad busy,i just hadn't much time to take camera with me,when i did think to take some nice pics i always forgot the camera :msp_sad:
good news is i did take it some days so i waited until i had some nice stuff to post,rather than boring you all with the same stuff over and over.

so what's new? good news is we were safe and working away with no incidents,thank god all went well over the harsh winter,we got a cold one,still is,and no change with the wet either,land is just nasty.
we moved deeper in to the woods,now we are working in three differnt parts of it on and off,one part is completly overy grown with a lot of holly trees which are crap firewood,so i just leave them there.there is a vast amount of wood here all the time,i think i could be here for the rest of my life LOL

so here is some updates.


P.S
I hope YOU ALL HAD A VERY NICE CHRISTMAS SEASON :msp_biggrin:

in my quite time me the missus and our little fella have been out flying my model R/C plane,its great fun and is a nice relaxing hobby.


i have some pics which i will upload soon,photobucket is acting a little weird right now.:bang:

 

[wyk]

Excellent, Bud. I just started seeing a lovely lady up in Bray. We spent last weekend at powers-court. Wow - never seen it before. I was impressed. So, unfortunately, won;t have many weekends free now. But if you have a week day available I may be able to come yer way and hang with you for a day as I now have transportation. I am over near Mullinahone. Well, between that and and Nine Mile House.

 

[logger 12345]

hello reindeer,

that's good news,i hope all is well with you and the new woman,i wish you two the best.

yeah for sure,if and when i see a day suitable i will pm you here and could look in to that.:msp_biggrin:


will update soon,PB still acting strange.

 

[NHlocal]

logger 12345,
good to hear from you again, and good to hear all is well with you and the family.
Looking forward to more of your updates and pictures. :msp_w00t:

 

[logger 12345]

i guess it's time for an update...hope everyone is doing good!



updates from january 2013 until now.


2013 JANUARY



this winter was a cold one but nothing as cold as a few recent past winters,in fact to compare it was mild enough,we didn't get much snow,yes we did get some in january when we arrived back to work,but it didn't effect us much,if anything it made the ground harder and a little easier to walk on.2012 has been one of the wettest years in history here in ireland,farmers are struggling to keep animals,the land here is like a swamp,however everyone got by fine,the one buisness that is booming here is firewood so that's a good complaint,we are as busy as ever going none stop with it,just the way i like it.things are calming down a little now,but this christmas was a very busy time with firewood,we were flatout everyday with 2-3 orders a day,maybe 6-8 tonnes a day.

nothing much to report about my saws,the 445 is flying,i did replace a bar recently on the 445 but that bar was taken off the older 440 when i traded it,so i guess i done ok there,it had a LOT of work done,the 365sp is going as strong as every,i used it today to cut a big whitethorn tree.

the weather here right now is very windy and cold,as i write this i sit down longside a nice ash fire!




this was the first week back in january 2013

some ash stumps ,these trees were quite large.

 

[logger 12345]

another roadway we cleared here.....nice n muddy

lot of clearing on all these trees though,slow work

 

[logger 12345]

have this paticular new roadway almost cleared now.time to move on to the next part of the land.

some wood ready for delivery.

new bar for the 445,oregon microlight

 

[logger 12345]

start of febuary was mild,snow had gone but was quite wet.

cutting some spruce off that massive 90+ft tall tree....still lots left of it..

part of the woods that now is cleared

 

[logger 12345]

cutting up the rest of that large spruce beast,was good demand for it this winter.some of it went almost 100miles away to customers who didn't mind paying the delivery charge.

 

[logger 12345]

not much left now of those two large spruce trees,just the stumps.


here is what i do when i get time,if things go a little quite,which is rare.....

TIME TO CUT A MASSIVE ASH TREE.......

 

[7sleeper]

Great to see some updates! Was also worried a little about so long no update. What are those little red dots on the pics on the other page?

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[logger 12345]

 

[logger 12345]

cut some amount of ash here recently,amazing wood!!

 

[logger 12345]

this ash tree was quite a biggie!!

365sp still performing flawlessly,with all the tonnes of wood it has cut it's even still running the same sprocket!

this part of the woods thinning out nicely....

 

[logger 12345]

getting lost in sawdust!!!!

 

[logger 12345]

 

[logger 12345]

and that pretty much brings things up to speed! :msp_thumbup:

 

[NHlocal]

Great to see more updates! Thanks for posting more great pictures. :msp_thumbup: I really like the pictures of the horses wearing their "winter coats"!
Good to hear all is going well and you are staying busy.
Looking forward to more updates.
Work safe. :msp_thumbsup:

 

[logger 12345]

one thing i meant to mention was that large spruce was a real tough job to cut,when i got the hang of it though it was ok,the saw was great but the way it fell on a slight incline it bent like a bananna,so this meant every 5th or 6th slice really wanted to wedge the saw,so what i did to solve this was cut the tree in to 10ft lengths,that sorted us out :msp_wink:



cheers NHL, yeah they needed the coats it sure was cold enough .)

 

[PJF1313]

Thanks for the pics and update logger!

Glad that you are busy - means more money, and less chance of getting into trouble! :hmm3grin2orange: